However, Day has never been a head coach at any level and may not have been the most likely member of the coaching staff to take over for Meyer. Associate head coach and defensive coordinator Greg Schiano has considerably more experience.

Schiano was the head coach at Rutgers for 11 seasons before moving to the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2012-13.

With a salary of $7.6 million for 2018, Meyer is college football's second highest-paid coach. Alabama's Nick Saban is first. Meyer has been put on temporary leave with pay while the university investigates allegations he was aware of multiple instances of domestic abuse involving former assistant coach Zach Smith.

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No. 1: Dave Aranda, LSU defensive coordinator: $1,800,000. Hired away from Wisconsin after the 2015 season for a deal that began at $1.2 million in basic annual pay, Aranda got a $600,000 raise after last season. He’s set to make $1.85 million next season. He was making $520,000 in his final season at Wisconsin. Matt Bush, USA TODAY Sports

No. 2: Brent Venables, Clemson defensive coordinator: $1,700,000. After the Tigers won the national championship last season, Venables and other Clemson assistants got raises. His was $275,000. He also now can up to $200,000 in bonuses based on the team’s defensive statistical performance. Joshua S. Kelly, USA TODAY Sports

No. 4: Matt Canada, LSU offensive coordinator: $1,505,000. To get Canada away from Pittsburgh after last season, LSU not only gave him $1.5 in basic annual salary and a contract running a little more than three years, it also paid the $375,000 buyout he owed Pitt. In 2015, at N.C. State, he was making $560,000. Kim Klement, USA TODAY Sports

No. 5 (tie): Don Brown, Michigan defensive coordinator: $1,300,000. Following the 2016 season – his first in Ann Arbor – Michigan gave Brown a new five-year agreement that is set to pay him $1.3 million next season and $1.4 million in each of the final three seasons. Brad Mills, USA TODAY Sports

No. 7 (tie): Brian Daboll, Alabama offensive coordinator: $1,200,000. After the departures of Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian, Alabama chose Daboll, who had been a long-time NFL assistant – most recently with the Super Bowl-winning New England Patriots. His three-year contract is set to pay $1.2 million each year. Marvin Gentry, USA TODAY Sports

No. 9: Bob Shoop, Tennessee defensive coordinator: $1,155,000. Under a contract that had been set to run through February 2019, Shoop was making the same amount this season that he made last season. But that was before head coach Butch Jones got fired in mid-November. Adam Lau, AP

No. 10 (tie): Pep Hamilton, Michigan passing game coordinator: $1,150,000. Hamilton came to Michigan this year after spending much of his coaching career as an NFL quarterbacks coach. He has a four-year contract that included a $150,000 signing bonus and is scheduled to give him $1.45 million next season. Andy Lyons, Getty Images

No. 10 (tie): Jim Leavitt, Oregon defensive coordinator: $1,150,000. A head coach for 13 years at South Florida, Leavitt last year was working as Colorado’s defensive coordinator and getting paid a little more than $500,000. Chris Pietsch, AP

No. 13: Doug Nussmeier, Florida offensive coordinator: $1,144,225. This past March, Florida increased Nussmeier’s base salary by nearly $300,000 over what he had been scheduled to make this season. He also got a $300,000 retention payment for having been with Florida from December 2014 through mid-February 2017. Kim Klement, USA TODAY Sports

No. 14: Todd Orlando, Texas defensive coordinator: 1,100,000. Orlando accompanied head coach Tom Herman from Houston after last season. He was making $526,000 at Houston last season and just under $215,000 in 2014, when he was with Utah State. Phelan M. Ebenhack, AP

No. 15: Wesley McGriff, Mississippi defensive coordinator: $1,000,000. After working as Auburn’s secondary coach last season, and making $500,000, McGriff received a three-year contract that calls for $100,000 increases each year. Bruce Newman, AP